Getting+to+Know+Each+Other

** SNYDER'S SUPER STUDENT STORIES GAME ** The students divide an index card into four boxes In the upper left hand box they write a fact about themselves that is also true about most of the people in the room –ex. I am a student In the upper right hand box they write a fact about themselves that is also true about some of the people in the room – ex. I am a girL In the lower left hand box they write a fact about themselves that is also true about a few of the people in the room – ex. I wear glasses In the lower right hand box they write a fact about themselves that is only true about them – ex. I have six toes.

To begin the exercise all of the students stand up and, beginning with the most and working to only statement, the teacher reads the facts and as students hear a fact that is not true about themselves they sit down so by the time you get to the only statement, only one student should be standing. When you get down to the one student that student then explains about the fact or tells a story about his or herself. I remind the students not to write anything embarrassing that they may not want others to know and also not to give me lame facts! //-- submitted by: Erica Snyder//

Arrange chairs (one less than the number of people playing). The person without a chair stands in the middle, they are "it". That person makes a statement about something that they have never done. It would be said "I have never _." Anyone sitting in the chairs that **//has//** ever done whatever that person said must get up and move to another chair. The person left without a chair is then "it." //-- submitted by: Michael Kalnbach//
 * I NEVER**

Each player is given an index card on which they write two things about their life that are true and one that is a lie. The students move around the room reading their cards to one another and guessing as to which one of the things on the card is the lie. They can keep score on their card. //-- submitted by: Michael Kalnbach//
 * TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE**